(A tall, lean, pedantic chap -- with unruly light-colored hair, a great many pockets overflowing with markers, pens, and slips of paper, and a striped scarf that brushes the floor at both ends -- approaches thnidu and asks to take over the keyboard for a few moments.) .
Very nicely pointed out. This had not occurred to me as being ungrammatical, but of course you're quite correct, and the parallel with "girl(s)" shows the point quite clearly. Not to mention the last sentence, he said paraleptically.
He bows and departs, leaving a card:
Dr. Whom Consulting Linguist, Grammarian , Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody
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Very nicely pointed out. This had not occurred to me as being ungrammatical, but of course you're quite correct, and the parallel with "girl(s)" shows the point quite clearly. Not to mention the last sentence, he said paraleptically.
He bows and departs, leaving a card:
Consulting Linguist, Grammarian , Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody
BTW, lovely icon!